John Dunn and partner spent a month skiing and trekking on little-visited Victoria Island. They chose the brief window between cold weather and the bugs.

Branden Joy has completed a 1,655km kite buggy crossing of Mongolia in 61 days. The 33-year-old American struggled with both a lack of wind and crazy winds.

Former biathlete Haldan Borglum climbed all the peaks over 11,000ft in the Canadian Rockies in two years. He is also the youngest to do the difficult list.

Calem Watson, 25, is just over a week into a year-long attempt to canoe 13,000km from the Arctic Ocean to Colombia, in South America.

This series considers the 10 largest islands in the world from the perspective of an adventurer looking for new possibilities. Today, #2: Papua New Guinea.

The 24-year-old Canadian began his 59-day journey on April 10 and kayaked an average of 47km per day. He spent a third of his time waiting for low winds.

An international team will try to take a sailboat above 81˚ N on Ellesmere Island. No sailboat has ever gone so far north on this ice-choked island.

Ilia Smirnov has set a new record time for solo paddling the Mississippi from source to sea by kayaking 15 hours a day and sleeping just 4-5 hours a night.

Next month, four Swiss rowers will begin rowing unsupported from Longyearbyen, Svalbard, to Scotland's Orkney Islands. It should take them about 50 days.

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Despite several encounters at gunpoint, French adventurer Noe Perchet has completed a 1,750km solo kayak expedition from Ecuador to Colombia.

Three Canadian paddlers are now 53 days and 1,241km into their 8,000km canoe journey from the shores of Tadoussac, Quebec, in eastern Canada, to Prince Rupert, British Columbia, on the Pacific Ocean. Will Vyse, Georges Kirijian, and Nolan Aziz left Tadoussac on April 12. Section 1 of 19 The team has broken its route down […]

American Wesley Tils, 33, is one week into an ambitious 12,800km walk across the United States, travelling from east to west.

Most expeditions on the Greenland Ice Sheet have finished, but in the Canadian Arctic, some veteran adventurers embrace late spring conditions.

This series explores the 10 largest islands in the world from the perspective of an adventurous traveler looking for new possibilities. Today, #7: Honshu

The teams left on the Greenland Ice sheet have either finished or nearly. In the Canadian North, only veteran Will Steger remains on the trail.

Arctic expeditions are beginning to taper off, as snow disappears and some southerly rivers begin to break up. But Greenland remains in full swing.

In this series, we consider the 10 largest islands in the world from the perspective of a self-propelled traveler. Today, #9: Great Britain.

The latest reports from expeditions to Greenland, Svalbard, Nunavut, and the Northwest Territories. Some aborted before they began, others ended happily.

Alexander Campbell is more than three years and halfway into a 40,000km journey around the world on foot, beginning and ending in Sydney, Australia.